Welcome to our new website, which we hope is easier to use than the previous one.You will see the forum is the same as before, just with a different header, and the FAQ is the same as Wikipedia. Hopefully these familiar interfaces will ease the transition.

The FAQ is relatively empty right now and we welcome contributions to help populate it. When it has more content we hope it will be easier than trawling through the forum for answers

SubJunk wrote:Welcome to our new website, which we hope is easier to use than the previous one.... and the FAQ is the same as Wikipedia. Hopefully these familiar interfaces will ease the transition.The FAQ is relatively empty right now and we welcome contributions to help populate it. When it has more content we hope it will be easier than trawling through the forum for answers

Hmm, faq still looks like same old forum to me and not like a wiki (like mediawiki). Am I missing sth?Kind regards, Otmanix

SubJunk wrote:Welcome to our new website, which we hope is easier to use than the previous one.... and the FAQ is the same as Wikipedia. Hopefully these familiar interfaces will ease the transition.The FAQ is relatively empty right now and we welcome contributions to help populate it. When it has more content we hope it will be easier than trawling through the forum for answers

Hmm, faq still looks like same old forum to me and not like a wiki (like mediawiki). Am I missing sth?Kind regards, Otmanix

My pc was down because of a crashed ssd. So I missed the last 3 weeks waiting for waranty return...I started the faq in forum some time ago and I would contribute to a wiki. Is it possible to get it online again?

Instead of maintaining FAQs in three different places (forum, wiki and documentation), why not focus the efforts on one spot?

Personally I would prefer the documentation because it will ship with every version of PMS, making the program self-documenting.

Ideally the forums would be used to sort out relevant information, while the documentation would be used to lock down sorted out information.Adding a wiki would only add to the diffusion of information, which seems a bad idea.

Since the documentation is in HTML, it would be fairly easy to incorporate in any website.

otmanix wrote:My pc was down because of a crashed ssd. So I missed the last 3 weeks waiting for waranty return...I started the faq in forum some time ago and I would contribute to a wiki. Is it possible to get it online again?

We're just going to use the forum FAQ for now because I don't want the headache

Raptor399 wrote:Instead of maintaining FAQs in three different places (forum, wiki and documentation), why not focus the efforts on one spot?

The only FAQ is now the forum. In the upcoming version of PMS removes the FAQ that is packaged with PMS and instead links to the online one.In the future the plan is to have all the documentation in one place online because then every user will always see the latest version instead of outdated ones inside the program.

SubJunk wrote:We're just going to use the forum FAQ for now because I don't want the headache

That's absolutely o.k. from your point of view. You don't have to support 2 platforms, wiki and forum. But believe me, if you want to write a documentation the limited features of this forum, e.g. layout and lack of using pictures/screenshots, drive you nuts. So don't wonder why only few people are contributing... My opinion is that there should only be one place for docs and this should be a wiki. A forum is definitly not intended for being used as a place for docs, it may be used as a workaround. A wiki is designed for exactly doing that.

I believe that if someone (e.g. me) is starting to fill in content in a wiki others will follow. Because it's easy to modify existing articles, add some notes which mght be useful... and perhaps few will then start to write new articles. But this faq in forum will never be accepted by users. It's better than no docs at all, but in the end that shouldn't be the goal...